Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mitropoulos arranged a chorus of 60-some in red gowns, some in black-on a high platform across the back of the stage, had it stand or sit in well-drilled movement sections at crucial moments. Baritone Mack Harrell, as Columbus, stood beside the conductor, and Basso Norman Scott, as Columbus' inner nature and conscience, stood slightly behind him. Soprano Dorothy Dow, as Queen Isabella, entered through the orchestra whenever she had a solo. Met Baritone John Brownlee, as the Narrator, stood on a high platform at the left, and various Officers, Creditors and Wise Men sang from steps...
...must consider: what sort of student body should the University have. The Administration's goal is a balance between intellectuals, activities men, and all other sorts of undergraduates (provided, of course, they meet the University's academic requirements). This variety is not simply an antidote to dullness, but a crucial part of the University's intellectual atmosphere, an atmosphere which encourages clashes of view point and maintains the educational benefits of mixing varied backgrounds...
...Looking back, I am content. Win or lose, I have told you the truth as I see it ... I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best . . ." When his TV time ran out, the governor still had several crucial sentences of his speech left to go. These he delivered in an anticlimactic five-minute broadcast an. hour later...
Vague about the shape of the commission, he was specific on its main problem: repatriation of prisoners of war-said to be the crucial problem holding up agreement at Panmunjom. "The question at issue is one of the free expression of will by prisoners," he said, "but such free expressions are not likely in prison camp conditions under the muzzles of machine guns." Russia took its stand beside the Geneva Convention of 1949 (the U.S. did not sign), which provides for the repatriation of prisoners "without any reservations or restrictions...
...shattering, exquisite moment, and then suddenly breaking into tears from the ordeal of the flight when he lands on the ground; the camera tilting crazily, as if it were careering through the sky, while focused on Tycoon Richardson shakily listening in his office to a radio report of a crucial test. Through the picture, like a macabre musical motif, runs a sonic soundtrack: great swooping wooshes, the piercing wail of the Vickers Supermarine 535 Swift as it dives from 40,000-ft. heights toward the buffeting, invisible barrier of sound...